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Get Your Walking Shoes On
And walk on over to the Lucky Lab on Hawthorne on Thursday September 24th for the Willamette Pedestrian Coalition’s annual meeting. Date: Sept. 24, 2009 Time: 6:30 – 8:30 PM Location: Lucky Lab SE 915 SE Hawthorne Meet fellow pedestrians and hear about WPC accomplishments and plans. We will recognize outstanding contributors and present the…
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Unclear on the Concept
These folks attending the PSU Farmer’s Market on Saturday apparently couldn’t discern the purpose of the cycle track striping. Interestingly, it only occurred on one block, and they were all gone 45 minutes later, but not before getting ticketed.
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Green Means Go
Dignitaries arriving from Clackamas County on the inaugural Green Line ride were greeted at PSU by Mayor Sam Adams, a (very loud) drum corps and the Viking cheerleaders. The predictable round of speechmaking ensued, but a notable distinction from recent rail line openings was the presence and full-throated support from Peter Rogoff, the new Federal…
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Streetcar Plan Outside-In
Yesterday, City Council adopted the Portland Streetcar System Concept Plan on a 4-0 vote. But at the beginning of the hearing Mayor Adams expressed his “legislative intent” that we seriously look at building the system from the outside in, rather than from the central city outward. Neighborhood representatives from places like St. John’s, Hazelwood, and…
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Applying Metcalfe’s Law to Transit
In the Sunday O, Dylan Rivera’s article about the imminent Green Line opening notes that each time a new MAX line opens, overall ridership on MAX goes up by more than the ridership of the new line: For example, the Red Line, opened in 2001, initially connected downtown Portland to the airport. So when TriMet…